With up coming energy hikes ... [Warning: tinfoil hattery]
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Nahhh.
Well, it'll kill Intel's new CPU dead in the water, and those 4090s are gonna stay on the shelves...
Exactly my thoughts, too. They'd better take a step "back" and keep todays performance while only needing half the power...
But...
With people already cutting back on unnecessary luxuries? It'd be a brave move right now.
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The idea of subscription fees has been floated a few times, and the forums are utterly allergic to improving the game via funding it. Would be interesting to see how many if we could still make polls.
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Rather unfortunately, I will need to financially budget my gaming time from October, it seriously feels like the weirdest thing to write and contemplate.
There's little evidence this would actually improve the game, it would more likely lead to a massive drop off in new players and lose some old players. I'm not allergic to improving the game, I just don't think this would necessarily improve the game. I mean you can do the same just by voluntarily buying X number of ARX per month, just convince the rest of the subscription believers to the do the same and job done.
The price caps only apply to retail users and don't cover businesses, so a change in the price cap makes no difference to them. Businesses have been subject to uncapped price increases since the beginning.
So what exactly have those "micro" (there's nothing micro about them) transactions been funding if not the game ?
In the rich EU, where everything used to be plentiful, we are now foreseeing an upcoming winter, where people are going to find it difficult to heat their homes, and where the power providers warn that there might be times with no electricity. It's not that EU won't have energy. It's just that 15% of it comes from Russia or Ukraine. Yet, it shows how dependent on energy we have become. There is no substitute for energy, so the price skyrockets, even with relatively small changes in supply, because the demand constantly increases.
It takes energy to flip a bit. There is even a theoretical minimum amount of energy needed, called the Landauer Limit. Today we are not even close to being able to flip bits that efficiently, and technology is constantly being developed that increase efficiency, but at the same time the number of bits flipped worldwide is also increasing, roughly following Moore's Law. Combined the global energy energy use related to IT is growing exponentially, because the advances in technology doesn't make up for the increase in data.
Today we use roughly 10% of all the electricity used in the World for IT. A third of that is used in datacentres, a third is used for transferring data, and a third is used in personal devices like smartphones or PCs. Those 10% will become 20% in roughly three years time, then 40%, 80% 160%... I hope y'all get the picture. Electricity is not equal to energy used. Globally we use roughly five times as much energy as we use electricity, so the 10% electricity "only" amounts to 2%, but those 2% become 4%, 8%, 16%, 32%, 64% and finally 128% in six doubling times, or in less than 20 years! That surely won't happen, but it's remarkable how little we normally talk about it.
This is an "issue". We simply can't "produce" energy enough to keep having faster and faster hardware. It needs to be efficient rather than fast.
Edit: Btw. that includes writing more efficient code. The days of writing cheap inefficient code are soon to be over.
It takes energy to flip a bit. There is even a theoretical minimum amount of energy needed, called the Landauer Limit. Today we are not even close to being able to flip bits that efficiently, and technology is constantly being developed that increase efficiency, but at the same time the number of bits flipped worldwide is also increasing, roughly following Moore's Law. Combined the global energy energy use related to IT is growing exponentially, because the advances in technology doesn't make up for the increase in data.
Today we use roughly 10% of all the electricity used in the World for IT. A third of that is used in datacentres, a third is used for transferring data, and a third is used in personal devices like smartphones or PCs. Those 10% will become 20% in roughly three years time, then 40%, 80% 160%... I hope y'all get the picture. Electricity is not equal to energy used. Globally we use roughly five times as much energy as we use electricity, so the 10% electricity "only" amounts to 2%, but those 2% become 4%, 8%, 16%, 32%, 64% and finally 128% in six doubling times, or in less than 20 years! That surely won't happen, but it's remarkable how little we normally talk about it.
This is an "issue". We simply can't "produce" energy enough to keep having faster and faster hardware. It needs to be efficient rather than fast.
Edit: Btw. that includes writing more efficient code. The days of writing cheap inefficient code are soon to be over.
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You'd think that buying a game for money would also count as funding, but apparently not.
I funded it by buying the original combined Base and H package just after H was released, then the Odyssey DLC, I think I purchased some nameplates somewhere along the line, that's funding!
You must be new here. Make a thread about a possible subscription fee and see what happens.